Developing successful marketing strategies

At head of title: American Marketing Association.

Preparing your strategic marketing plan --
Identifying your needs, problems, and opportunities --
Formulating your mission statement --
Formulating your goals and objectives --
Formulating your marketing strategy --
control and corrective actions for marketing strategies --
Presenting the strategic marketing plan.

From the American Marketing Association, the world's largest and most comprehensive professional association of marketers, comes the AMA Marketing Toolbox series, a unique source of information, ideas, and direction for anyone who is building an effective marketing program or interested in improving current marketing activities. The AMA Marketing Toolbox series will guide you through every critical marketing task and provide you with the tools you need--model formats, checklists, and boilerplate documents-to implement those tasks quickly, accurately, and effectively to your business. Developing Successful Marketing Strategies is Step 2 in the Marketing Toolbox program. This book will show you how to develop and put into action strategies that will help you meet your marketing objectives. You will learn how to perform a comprehensive situational analysis that assesses marketing needs and opportunities, create a mission statement that explains how each marketing strategy will meet marketing and management goals, and put field-tested strategies into action at each marketing level. Filled with worksheets, forms, and tables for you to complete, Developing Successful Marketing Strategies is step- and action-oriented, perfect for beginning marketers, small business owners, and entrepreneurs. About the Author David Parmerlee is a marketer with more than twenty years of experience at such companies as Anheuser-Busch, Pitney Bowes, Ernst & Young, and Bank One. He resides in Indianapolis, Indiana